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The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
ICE-CREAM POISONING.
Deaths Caused by the Shameful Adultera-
ton of Food Products.

Deaths Caused by the Shameful Adulteraa
ton of Food Products.
Instances of ice-cream poisoning con-
tinue to multiply. The cause, how
ever, remains as far beyond discovery
as ever Cheese poisoning dried-beef
poisonings and canned meat poisonings
are also of frequent occurrence. Such
catasthrophes were in former times un-
known. When pure milk, pure eggs
and pure tlayors were used for ice
cream, when cheese was made of milk
and curded with genuine animal rem
net, end meat was cured with simple
salt. they did not become poison by
chemical action, nor even through
putridity.
With modern discoveries in science,
all kinds of chemical mixtures are
made to take the place of pure, unso-
phisticated products. Milk is doc
tored; cream is doctored; artificial SUBJ
stitutes for eggs and butter are used;
fiavors are made from mysterious in
gradients. in compromising ice-cream.
In the supplies of cheese-factories sub
stitutes are used that produce more
curd from the milk. and that color it
so as to resemble the natural cream
and yellow hues derived from the grass
in pastures. In preserving meat
chemical agencies are supplied to rein
force the offices filled by salt in the pro-
| cess.
These new ingredients used in food
products doubtless, in combination or
in the process of putrefaction. would
produce poisons unknown to chemical
science, and such as have no lurking
place in the products of nature honest
| ly prepared for human food The ice-
cream poisons, the cheese poisons and
the canned meat poisons, loosely
known by new names, are produced
by the decomposition of the sOphisti-
Gated and strange substances of which
limitations of old articles of pure food
are composed. Ii those producing ice
cream. cheese. cured meats and SINH
lar articles should return to the use of
| pure natural materials the new poisons
would disappear. - Csieago 1o1TasL
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
JUDGE J. ID. WALKER, of FlOrenC

JUDGE J. ID. WALKER, of Florence.
Ariz., says that the Pima Indians select
several promising youths of their tribe
from time to time for repositories OF
their traditions, and they are carefully
instructed in the historical legends per
tanning to their tribe, being required to
commit them faithfully to memory.
They in turn instruct their successors,
and thus preserve the traditions in the
exact language recited by their ances-
tors of many years ago. They have
knowledge of the tribe that built the
old Casa Grande and other vast build
ings whose ruins now excite such GU
riOSity.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

GENERAL CLARK, clerk of the House
of Representatives, has received and
had printed the testimony in eight con-
tested election cases that are to be con-
sidcrcd by the next Congress as fol-
lows: Lowrey VS.. White, Indiana;
Smalls vs.. Elliott. South Carolina;
Glover vs.. Frank, MiSsouri; Worthing-
ton VS.. Post, Illinois; McDuffy VS.. Da-
wilson. Alabama; Carlisle VS.. Thobe,
Kentucky; Sullivan vs.. FELTON, and
Lynch vs.. Van Dever, California.
Mcssrs O'Hara, of North Carolina, and
Swinburn, of New York, who, it is said,
will make Il contest, have not yet filed
notice or submitted testimony to the
clerk.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
SWORDS OF INDIA.
Deadly Weapons Carried by the Sepoys,
Persians and Afghans.


Among some military trophies |
once saw a very rude. rusty teghar-
locally worth a shlling-which had
cleanly decapitated raw recruit,
severing coat collar, brass buckle and
caste necklet of hard enamel beads.
The nimble village rebel had sprung
on the Sepoy from ambush while trim
ming his flintlock after mistire.
This and all the low-priced teghars
and tulwars are of very soft metal.
capable of being bent and Strengthened
across the blade, while the arch or
cutting portion, with razor-edge,
offers immense resistance in the hands
Of an expert, who, behind his shield,
can watch and measure his oppOrtun-
ity. Only the straight thrust of Brit
ish bayonets or dragoon blades can
reach them.
The metal and finish of cutting arms
improve when we enter North India.
Hard steel of fine temper and high
workmanship used to be common un-
til two Sikh wars and the great mu-
tiny. abolished the demand for such
deadly wares. The skilful Moham-
medan craftsman hal to emigrate for
livelihood, or TO often dwindled into
a blacksmith of harmless occupation.
remember in the good old times of
the East India Company itinerant
sword peddlers, Persians and Afghans
of great stature and big turbans.
"Do you want any swords?"
Yes; but where are they?"
Here and the vendors hands
were lifted to his head-cloth, where
they CROPPED awhile. Out sprang
three or four shining steel snakes,
elastic blades, unhandled la mode,
f20 to ESQ each in value, sometimes
more. Then the dealer put them
through various severe tests to satisfy
his customer. packing them away
again in their hiding place should
there be no sale, and going on his
road. But there were many shapes
and sizes and sorts of cimeters OF
great price, harder and less flexible,
both plain and damascened. The
black steel of x Khorassan. very rare in
the market teputed to cut off the
neck of an anvil-an Eastern anvil,
of course; the Partisan and Central
Asian specimens. elegantly watered in
circular veins seem so light that q
girl could use them, others so heavy
that height and length of arm, with
hreadth of chest were needful off
of nature to utilize them-men like
Rob Roy" or ''Mahmud Ghuzni. "
whose hands hung below their knees.
The latter notable carried an awful
steel mace in preference to sword.
aud smashed idols and idolators with
his own arms ON all occasions. -Es'
gIisis Mechanic.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

TIE greatest excitement prevails IN
Havana, occasioned by the recent acts Of
Capt. Gen. Marin in taking possession OF
the customhouse and placing the officials
under arrest. The city is in charge of reg
ular troops and the situation becomes
daily more desperate, recalling events
attending the massacre Of medical students
in 1871.
SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, thinks
Secretary Lamar will be the Democratic
candidate for Vice-President.
The record of yellow fever cases at Key
West, up to the 2Sth, according to the
reports of the board Of health. was as
follows: New cases !, deaths ~, dis
charged cured III, still sick SO.
THE REV. MOSES ROGERS, a direct de.
scendant of John Rogers, who was burned
at the stake in England on account Of his
religious convictions in the sixteenth CEN
tury, and who was probably the Oldest
member of the Methodist ministry in
America, died at Fresh Pond, l.. l., on the
9th. The deceased was in his ninty fourth
year, and had been preaching about
seventy years.
at Augusta, Ca, on the 2Sth.
In drunken row at Washington, on the
night of the 28th, Frank Heiseman shot
and killed John Waines. An angry crowd
gathered, but Heiseman kept them at bay
with his smoking revolver, and finally es-
capped.
THE President has appointed Robert A.
Crowley, of Mississippi, to be Marshal Of
the United States Consular Court ct
Ningpo, China.
THE disorder at Decatur, Ga, on the
tween the races. A drunken negro dis
turbed a religions meeting and several
negro toughs resisted arrest. In the melee
fatal shots were fred and the whites be-
came very much excited, but so far as yet
appears without cause.
WITHIN a short time the United States
has adopted a system for the transmission
| Of documents to our consuls which has re-
suited in the saving of q great many hun
dreds of dollars in the course Of the year.
ALTHOUGH the flow Of trade dollars
toward the Treasury has practically
ceased, it is believed that there are still a
great many Of these coins. Up to the
present time there have been about seven
and half million "trades" exchanged for
standard dollars.
SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI is in q frenzy
uf excitement over the railroad land quss-
tion, which has lately developed some
most remarkable features.
SIXTY persons were poisoned from eat
ing ice cream at Beaumont, Texas, on the
Sth. 1t is thought two of the victims
will die,
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
MODERN JERUSALEM.
The Poverty and Unsatisfactory Condition
of Its Inhabitants.


Jerusalem has no wealth Fifty or
one hundred years ago. it could boast
If some wealthy families. Their prop
srty has, however, been scattered and
reduced, until their descendants of the
present generation are either poor. or
possessed of barely enough to support
them. The city is poor, the people are
impoverished, and half of the inhabi.
;ants scarcely know from day to day
where they are going to get their daily
bread
But poor as people and city are.
rents are exorbitantly high. Since
the houses are built of stone. there is
no danger of loss by fire. Hence fam
lies having little money on which
they are dependent for support will
build house with it. because the in
vestment is the best one they can make.
There s no risks, and the high rents
insure a good rate of interest.
Only well-to-do family can occupy
an entire house. In hundreds of cases a
family numbering four or eight persons
will occupy but a single room. In a
house of six or eight rooms, there will
be as many families. They all cook
and wash in large open cour:, to
which each family has access. This
fact will give an idea of how crowded
some of the houses are. The people are
obliged to live in this way, because they
have not money enough TO hire more
room.
1t is very expensive building houses
in Jerusalem. The first step is to dig
a cistern. This costs so much that the
owner will dig only small cistern,
when he should build one five times
the size. All the families in the house
use water from this cistern. During
the rainy season there is sufficient
water; but by May or the first Of June
at the least, the cistern is dry. No
| rain falls until November or Decem-
ber; consequently, these people
must buy water for four or five
months. Water is brought in skins,
holding on an average three pailfulls
each; and for a skin of water one must
pay from five to ten cents. For poor
people this is very great hardship;
consequently. the least possible amount
of water is used, and it need hardly be
said that indescribable filth abounds.
Houses are invariably built of stone
and are much more expensive than one
would suppose. Stones have to be
quarried. transported on the backs OF
camels. cut into proper shape, and
finally built into walls. If the house
is two stories high. and the rooms are
large, the walls have to be two, and
sometimes three feet thick, in order
to support the great weight resting
upon them. A vast amount of stone
and mortar is consumed in making the
arches that support the upper floors OIL
the roof and likewise in the roof itself.
The amount of water used in prepar-
ing the mortar sometimes costs alone
several hundred dollars, if the house is
a large one. DR. Selah Merrill, tatt
| u s. COunSul
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
New York PrOhibitionists.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. H.-The Pro
hibition State convention assembled yester-
day morning at nine O'Clock, when Rev.
Mrs. Mary 7. Lathrop, of Michigan, made
a long speech, and was followed by Mrs.
Carrie T. Hoffman, Of Missouri About two
thousand delegates were in attendance. or
these l34 were formerly Democrats and the
rest formerly Republicans. A platform
was adopted declaring against license and
in favor of woman's suffrage. 1t holds that
both the Republican and Democratic par
ties are controlled by the rum power"
and cites the Vedder and Ives bills as proof
OF the assertion.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

New JERSEYS State prison holds
eight hundred and sixty convicts, of
whom one hundred and forty can
neither read nor write. A night school
is to opened, to be in session two hours
each evening. All who would like to
learn the erudiments will have the priv
ilnr.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

The death. from hydrophobia, of
Viscount Doneraile again brings into
prominence as subject of discussion
NJ. Pasteur's system of treatment for
rabies, Lord Doneraile and his coach
man were bitten by rabid fox last
January, and were both treated by M.
Pasteur. Neither showed any unfavor-
able symptoms after the treatment, and
the coachman is alive and well to-day,
never having exhibited any signs OF
hydrophobia tendencies. Lord Done
rallies attack of hydrophobia and con-
sequent death are attributed by his
physicians and his friends to his age,
and not to the ineflicacy of M. Pas
teur's system. But many persons on
the other hand contend that the return
of the disease in his lordship's case
proves the worthlessness of the French
mans theory, and some predict that
the coachman will yet succumb to the
malady that killed his master.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

Mrs. WLLOUGHBY, of Williamsburg
County, 5. C., learned recently that u
train on small branch was carrying
off some of her husbands property.
She took up stand on the track with
repeating rifle, and in command of
her farm hands, stopped the proceed
inrS
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

CAPTAIN WILLIAM OWEN, the noted
diver, died in st. Louis recently. Dur
ing his career on the Western rivers,
Captain Owen had inspected over three
hundred sunken boats.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

JUDGE KUMLER Of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, Cincinnati, has granted
amendments on the application of the
Union Labor party directing the board
of elections to hereafter recognize the
Union Labor party in making appoint
mcnts of clerks, registrars and judge,
of election,
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

JAPAN has temporarily suspended
negotiations for the revision of the
treaty, because of demands by the
treaty powers with reference to the
now code Of laws of japan.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

GENERAL EsCoBEDo has distributed
Photographic copies of the following
letter, written May IS, 1868, by Maxi
milan to Colonel Lopez: I'VE recon-
mend you to be silent with regard to
the commission entrusted by You to
General Escobedo. If you divulge.
YOUR honor will be stained. This
letter, it is maintained, proves that
Colonel Lco4z was sent by Macmillan
to arrange for the Archduke's escape
from Oueretaro, and failing in this to
deliver the city to the besieging army
in hope of obtaining lenient treatment.
The letter has caused great sensation
in Mexico as it acquits Lopez from the
charges Cf treason to Maximilian. 1t
was also believed that it would prevent
the duel between Generals Rocha and
Arce, as it shows that both gentlemen
were right. although at the time OF
their statements concerning the cap
ture of QueretarO they appeared to De
irreconcilable.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

GOVERNMENT ACTUARY ELLIOTT es-
Inmates the population Of the United
States June 80, ut SO. 1913, OO0-1, ,473, 600
more than June 30, 1886.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

NJ. LoCKRoY has been hooted by the
Anarchists of Paris for addressing them
rs "GentlemenN instead Of "Citizens. "
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

JUSTICE FIELD. of the United States
Supreme Court, thinks the division of
California into two States is certain to
occur before long.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

Mrs CLEVELAND has written letter
denying that she intended to write a
magazine article, as had been stated in
the newspapers
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

The President has appointed Henry
{. Borstel, of Maine, to be United
States Consul at Pernambuco.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01

The great Tower of Babel which is
to distinguish the French Exposition of
1889 is gradually rising.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-01
CURRENT COMMENT.

kATKoFF, the Moscow editor, left q
fortune Of two million roubles.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

Don DICKINSON, of Detroit, slides
in as postmaster general. There is at
least one satisfaction: He can not give
the country more unreliable postal sys-
tenn than it has been experiencing for
some time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

IT was settled on Thursday at
Washington, D. c., that the next Repub-
lican national convention will be held in
Chicago on or about June FL, 1883.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

Now THE Abilene Gazette should
pounce down upon Smoky HILL" and
bury its talons deep in his heart. He
has the audacity to remark, at the close
OF an article in the Topeka Capital, '.For
governor in 1888: A Kansas farmer"
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Two Cars Wrecked.

The afternoon passenger train going
east was delayed for some time Wednes-
day between Monument and Oakley.
The delay was caused by the wreckage OF
two fat cars which were crushed between
the heavy loaded box cars and the eLgine
while going down grade.
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TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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PAW with no subscriber who means
we'll. There are a few men to whom
we have refused to send the paper,
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could pay, but, in our Judgment,
would not. At the same time, pow
erty Of the genuine variety never,
when we could prevent it, has kept
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us any reliable pay or profit.
We maintain a delicate register
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us easily for the WORLD. We shall
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1t would seem that there is more
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Our esteemed Topeka contempt
raries do not raise objections to the sub
mission OF the constitutional amendment,
which the World advocates
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81. r Cowick represents the HOME,
WAsHiNaroN and CoNHEcTICUT Insurance
Companies, each with capital of over
100000. 39-tf
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

A. j. R. SMITH, one Of the tribe
who failed to hold up under the burden
of running newspaper in Wa-Keeney,
has started small daily evening paper in
North Topeka.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

Villas is the new secretary of the
interior
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

AMONG other feats Kansas CITY
has, this week, developed case of horse
FLANDERS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10
And So Is the "Leader.'
LenOra Leader.

The Wa-Keeney World is in favor Of
Hon. A. w. Smith, of Mcpherson county,
the farmer, for governor of Kansas in
1885, and so is the Leader.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Of President Cleveland's message,
the full text Of which we present to
our readers, there is not much to say,
except that he is for neither protec-
ton nor free trade. He talks Of the
payment Of taxes by poor people, on
account of the protective tariff on
wool, just as if he believed what he
says. When Mr.. Cleveland or any
body else talks in this vein, he should
be candid enough to add that the
teachings of history are against him.
A very small effort at kicking away
the ashes, will reveal an abundance
of light on this point. Under the
ante bellum Democratic regime, free
trade and poverty were boon COM
panions. Goods were cheap, but
then, not as now, there was almost
no money to buy with.
Tariff reduction to the extent Of
making many necessary regulations
is necessary. Mr.. Cleveland de-
claims against the principles Of free
trade, knowing we'll that he belongs
to a free-tradeparty, and that sweep
ing reduction Of tariffs on woods
and other American products means
the advent of a free-trade era.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

The Ne,0s at Wallace, we hear,
has suspended. If there is in the wide West
an opening for decent newspaper, that
place is Wallace. The News has been too
sleepy to give the news or talk above a
whisper. The Register is edited by
pretentious old idiot, whose newspaper
knowledge and love of decency fit into
the same groove.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10

The National Wool Growers As
ISOLATION denounce President Cleveland's
message. They assert that the reduction
of the tariff by the act Of 1883 increased
the revenues from imported wool, and di-
minished the number of sheep in the
United States about - per cent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10
a MODEL FAIR.

What constitutes . model fsir is, in
many minds, one of the questions yet to
be decided. Superintendent Graham, Of
the Kansas Agricultural College, has
the gold from the dross in a
manner eminently satisfactory to us. We
like his views as to handling horses at
fairs, as well as the utility of 'toughs' at
such places. The time is near when such
a thing as horse-racing at fair in Kansas
will not be permitted. 1t. is as foreign to
the interests of fair as saloon is to the
well-being of a community. "Our east
ern exchanges" says Professor Graham,
shave been speaking good deal, of late,
as to what should and what should not
be allowed on the fair grounds. Now an
ideal agricultural fair is one upon the
track of which no horse should be allow
ed to 90 faster chan his best walk, which
is the gait that gets there for the farmer.
There should be no wheels of fortune,
'thimble rigs or other gambling devices;
10 intoxicating liquors of any sort what
ever; no sporting gents or 'book-makers;'
and no ffty-cent admission fee for a ten
cent show. On the other hand, the show
ring should be full of great, massive,
clean-cut Shorthorns, white faces, black
'doddies' and the like; large uddered Jer-
seys, Ayrshires, Holsteins; titanic Perche-
ron Normans, lean-headed Cleveland bays,
French coaches, and few Shetlends; al
dermanic Berkshires and Poland-C hinas.
The art and horticultural halls should be
filled with something that will not make
the names an irony. The quiet sheep
should compare favorably in number if
not in variety with the poultry coops
made vocal by their busy and industrious
occupants.
"a tame affair? Yes, for the thugs
'toughs,' and sports of whatever sex or
color who are usually an all too conspicu-
Gus element in the makeup of the at
tendance upon the average fair It
would be very SLOW but the farmer could
60 and take his young sons and daugh-
tiers, to their great enjoyment and profit;
and could learn something himself. It
would undoubtedly pay the society better.
and last, but not least, it would free the
management from the accusation, SO well
founded in appearance, that they have or.
ganized and run the fairs in the interest
of the 'yahoos' rather than the yeomen.'